I have some good recipes coming up, I promise. I’ve just been so sick that I haven’t wanted to cook anything! I am fairly sure it’s bronchitis. *cough, hack* Figures, just when it starts to get nice out, I get sick. WAAH.

So, guess who got a big kid bike? Ok, let me rant about something for one second here. Naturally, she was drawn to the Barbie bike and the princess bike and the Hello Kitty bike- which, sure, they were all super cute, I can understand that. But seriously, $20 more for a picture of a branded character? Oh hell no. My poor, deprived child got the boring no-character cheapest bike from Wal-Mart.  And then to appease her we stuck a princess basket on the front. Surely this is the type of thing that she’ll be complaining about to her psychiatrist when she’s 30- at least you’d think so from the meltdown in the store when we said no to the $70 Cinderella bike. I think she recovered nicely, she looks pretty happy on there doesn’t she?

Look at her go! What, you don’t wear normally cowboy boots to ride your bike? Oh. Well…

It’s ok because she had some yard work to do with her dad afterward. What, you don’t normally wear a helmet for yard work? Oh. Well, I tried. She’s just weird.

Watching for dad to come home from night shift

I sat down to do a blog but apparently now I don’t have time. Tim is buying a new truck today and we have to go to the dealership in a couple minutes to pick it up before they close! So for now I will leave you with an adorable picture I took with my phone one morning a few weeks ago.

I’m home! I’ve actually been home since Friday night but haven’t had time and/or motivation to blog yet. Yesterday pretty much all I wanted to do was sleep- not that I got to do that. Nooo. Instead, I did 500 loads of laundry and watched movies all day long. That’s the next best thing, right?

Anyway, we had a really good time.

Tuesday was spent driving and flying alllll day.

On Wednesday my mom, granny, Zelda (my great-grandma) and I drove from Benson (where my gma and g-gma live) to Sierra Vista (where my great-aunt lives) for a big family turkey dinner. My mom’s cousins Allesa, Janet, and Dana had all come in for the dinner too. It was so much fun! The best food ever, of course (Allesa is an awesome cook, she’s even writing a cookbook). And we just sat and talked and laughed and laughed for hours. It was wonderful. We laughed so much that Zelda couldn’t fall asleep at the table… heh.

On Wednesday evening, Zelda handed over her photo albums and we sat and ate dessert at my granny’s and went through those albums. They were so neat! She had pictures back from the 1920′s and maybe even earlier (most were not dated). I took pictures of pictures that actually didn’t come out too bad.

On Thursday, we went to Tombstone (you know, shootout at the OK Corrall, Wyatt Earp, etc? I’m sure you’ve seen the movie…). We met up with my mom’s cousins and aunt and uncle there too. That was really fun. I’m a total nerd and I love that kind of stuff.

Then Friday, we got to fly and drive all day again.

I took pictures the whole time but have not edited those yet. I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on the old pictures of pictures from Zelda’s album! There are quite a few, so I won’t post them all here but if you want to check them out, visit my facebook.

My mom at 6 months old. Awww!

My great-grandma Zelda, in 1956. (I don’t know what/where the Topaz Lodge is.)

My granny as a kid… I don’t know how old she was here.

My grandma and grandpa.

The back of this photo listed the man on the far left and the woman in the middle as ‘grandfather and grandmother Davenport’. I assume my great-grandma wrote that? So these would be my great-great-great grandparents. !!! (Grandmother Davenport reminds me of someone…)